🤔 How long have you been here? How many times have you been subjected to lightning and fire? ⚡🔥 How much life have you seen come and go? How much of that life did you provide oxygen for? How much longer will you be here? 🌲
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These are a handful of questions that run through my head as I look up to a mighty Giant Sequoia. 😲 Following these questions I often find myself free of any thought. My mind goes quiet and next to this tree I just simply be. 💚
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The area around Hospital Rock near the SE entrance to Sequoia National Park was once home to hundreds of Potwisha Native Americans. Archaeological evidence shows settlement as early as 1350, and bedrock mortar sites and petroglyphs like this one can be found here. The Native Americans mostly used this site in the winter months. In 1860, Hale Tharp and his brother-in-law, John Swanson, were exploring the Giant Forest when Swanson sustained an injury to his leg. Swanson was transported to the locale where the injury was treated by local Indians. Hale Tharp gave the spot its name after a second similar incident. In 1873, James Everton recovered from a gunshot wound at the site, which lies several thousand feet below the giant forest in the foothills of the Sierra. #hospitalrock#sierranevada#petroglyphs#petroglyph#rockart#naturephotography#california#sequoianationalpark#sequoianationalforest#nature#history#nativeamerican#indiginous#ilovenature#america